Library makerspaces offer community members the opportunity to tinker, design, experiment, and create with a range of technology in an informal learning space. However, because current makerspaces and ...

In ancient times, artisans labored in a small workshop with manual tools. Today, we have some extraordinary digital tools that enable the present-day “artisans” to create contemporary new products.

Public libraries have come a long way from the reading rooms of the past, where the librarian's “Shhhh!” followed any utterance above a whisper. In fact, they're noisy places today - modern community ...

All human beings make stuff, UB faculty member Sam Abramovich says. So imagine making something that satisfies a personal, customized need, or solving a problem for your family, or finding a way to ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. What’s the best way to define a makerspace? For Laura Fleming, library media specialist at New Milford High School in New Jersey, a ...

A makerspace is an area intended to help its users express their creativity by crafting, building and designing whatever they can imagine. Typical amenities include 3-D printers that can create useful ...

Along with checking out books, patrons can embroider a T-shirt, personalize a coffee mug or record their own podcast at Albright Memorial Library in Scranton. It’s all part of the library’s Makerspace ...

XENIA — Greene County Public Library has been awarded $500,000 to renovate the Xenia Library’s “makerspace” as part of the county’s latest round of American Rescue Plan Act grants. The Xenia Library’s ...

The Simsbury Public Library is putting the final touches on its new makerspace. Lisa Karim, the director of the library, said focus groups held three years ago steered the way the library would ...

Arlington Public Library is extending the hours for its makerspace after staff say hundreds attended its grand opening. The makerspace, located at Arlington Central Library (1015 N. Quincy Street) ...

When was the last time you went to a library? If it’s been more than a couple of years, the library is probably a very different place than you remember. Public libraries pride themselves on keeping ...